Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Horton Foote's classic 1953 play, The Trip to Bountiful, found its new home last night, April 23, on the stage of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMMonday, April 22, 2013
The Outer Critics Circle has announced nominations for the 2012-2013 season. The nominees are as follows: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Grace
Lucky Guy
The Nance
The Testament of Mary …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMFriday, April 12, 2013
Broadway veterans Jeremy Jordan (Newsies), Norm Lewis (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Nice Work If You Can Get It), and Julia Murney (Falling), along with Judith Cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMSunday, April 7, 2013
Playful superstition or something to actually incite worry? Producers of the new Broadway revival of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, aren't taking th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Irish actor Milo O'Shea, a veteran of ten Broadway shows and a two-time Tony Award nominee, has died at the age of 86 in New York City following a short illness. The Dublin-born O'Shea rece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:52PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings) and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad (The Trip to Bountiful) will star in an upcoming Broadway revival of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Daily Variety, the read-with-morning-coffee source for entertainment industry insiders, is ceasing its print publication after almost 80 years. Today's edition, which features a "B'way" stor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:27PMThursday, March 7, 2013
Harry Potter's done it. So has Nicole Kidman. And practically the entire cast of the 2009 revival of Hair. This season it's Emilia Clarke's nakedness in Breakfast At Tiffany's that has whipp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:52PMHarry Potter's done it. So has Nicole Kidman. And practically the entire cast of the 2009 revival of Hair. This season it's Emilia Clarke's nakedness in Breakfast At Tiffany's that has whipp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:52PMFriday, February 22, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The best of Great Britain's theater scene was celebrated on Sunday with the annual WhatsOnStage.com Awards, held at London's Palace Theatre. The ceremony, hosted by West End One Man, Two Guv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMSomber audiences be warned: Don Stephenson's invigorating new production of Lend Me a Tenor aims to drive ticket-holders to tears--of laughter--and is currently hitting its mark at
Paper Mi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
There's nothing like bowling on a Monday night in Manhattan. Second Stage Theatre's bowling benefit at Lucky Strike (on 42nd Street and 12th Avenue) drew the attention of stage and screen st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:37PMMonday, January 28, 2013
Many of our stage favorites were honored last night for also being awesome at acting in movies and on television. We always knew they could do anything! Outstanding performance awards went …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMFriday, January 25, 2013
The Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera turns the big 2-5 on January 26, 2013. Almost 10,400 performances and the moniker "longest running Broadway show eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
The upcoming Broadway revival of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMMonday, January 14, 2013
Voting is now open for the 13th annual WhatsonStage.com Awards, run and named for the United Kingdom's leading theater website. Winners of the awards are determined entirely by ticket-buyers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:03PMBroadway and additional stage vets led the pack with big wins at the Golden Globes last night, which marked the official start of the sprint to the Academy Awards finish line. Broadway head…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMThursday, January 10, 2013
From the Broadway openings of The Anarchist and Golden Boy to Gypsy of the Year and Chicago's landmark 6,681st performance, December was a busy month as the theater world ushered out a great…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PMIt's The Tony Awards for movie people! The 85th Annual Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, with Broadway and off-Broadway well-represented by standout solo performances o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
January 9, 2013 --- TheaterMania.com, Inc., announced that it has acquired WhatsonStage.com, a leading digital theater content and ticketing company based in the United Kingdom, from Time Ou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Characters who typically take the sidelines (read: chorus) in musicals take center stage in Working, which just finished its run at 59E59 Theaters. The six-actor cast portrayed 36 ordinary A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMMonday, December 31, 2012
Every so often a picture, news blurb or anecdote so wild or touching comes into the office that we find ourselves saying "Did that seriously just happen?" In the nine cases below, yes--they …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:20AMFriday, December 28, 2012
Carrie Coon (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) "Bro on Broadway" Colin Weatherby notes in his review of Virginia Woolf that Coon should win "a Tony Award
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
Forty-four Broadway shows opened their doors in the calendar year 2012. Productions welcomed new cast members galore, while a handful of long-running favorites closed up shop. And then there…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:48PMTwo-time Academy Award nominee Charles Durning, who received Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his performance as Big Daddy in the 1990 Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, has died in Ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMTuesday, December 25, 2012
Jack Klugman, the protean character actor best known for his performances as Oscar Madison on the television series The Odd Couple and Herbie in the original Broadway production of Gypsy, di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:11PMFriday, December 21, 2012
Christmas and New Years are just days away, but fret not, seekers of holiday entertainment. New York is still packed with choices, and off-Broadway's offering a myriad of alternatives to dan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMThursday, December 20, 2012
"The Greatest Story Ever Told" gets retold, Broadway-style, with singing animals, the divine Carolee Carmello, sexypants Benjamin Walker, and an appearance by Godheim himself.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
The most dramatic moments often occur in the most genteel and picturesque settings, and the masters of drama at HBO frequently use this trope to their advantage. The network is currently ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMIn Working, now running at 59E59 Theaters, the glitz and glamour found in many musicals is replaced by sweat and elbow grease.The show's six-person cast portrays 36 characters, based on inte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:30AM 
